Please don't mix "you" and "we" in the text on who is doing what.


2014-11-20 16:34 GMT+01:00 Daniel Jakots <vigdis+o...@chown.me>:

> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:09:35 +0100, Daniel Jakots
> <vigdis+o...@chown.me> wrote:
>
> > I wanted to add some content to FAQ14
>
> Here it is.
>
> This can be useful for people who want to encrypt only their /home or
> people who want to automatically mount another disk encrypted at boot
> (me).
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> Index: faq14.html
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> RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq14.html,v
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> +++ faq14.html  20 Nov 2014 15:29:41 -0000
> @@ -3057,6 +3057,41 @@ and
>  <a href="
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&amp;sektion=4
> ">softraid(4)</a>
>  on your system.
>
> +<h4>Mounting a cryptographic softraid volume at boot</h4>
> +
> +This setup can be used for additional softraid volumes which don't
> +contain the root partition.
> +
> +<p>
> +You need to know the <a href="faq14.html#DUID">DUID</a>s of the
> +physical device and the one of the softraid volume.
> +
> +<blockquote><pre>
> +$ <b>disklabel sd0 | grep duid</b>
> +duid: 4d498d4248c8d056
> +$ <b>disklabel sd1 | grep duid</b>
> +duid: b1e264fc29000110
> +</pre></blockquote>
> +
> +We will use <i>/etc/rc.local</i> to decrypt, do a minor fsck check and
> +finally mount the volume. We use the DUID of the physical disk:
> +
> +<blockquote><pre>
> +# <b>echo "bioctl -c C -l 4d498d4248c8d056.m softraid0" >>
> /etc/rc.local</b>
> +# <b>echo "\"check /data\"; fsck -p /data; mount -s /data" >>
> /etc/rc.local</b>
> +</pre></blockquote>
> +
> +We add the entry of the partition in <i>/etc/fstab</i> with the DUID
> +of the crypto volume. We also add the flag <i>noauto</i> so the system
> +doesn't try to mount it with the other partitions as they're mounted
> +before <i>/etc/rc.local</i> is run thus the crypto volume doesn't exist
> +for the system, yet.
> +
> +<blockquote><pre>
> +# <b>echo "b1e264fc29000110.p /data ffs \</b>
> +  <b>     rw,nodev,nosuid,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab</b>
> +</pre></blockquote>
> +
>  <h4>I forgot my passphrase!</h4>
>  Sorry.
>  This is real encryption, there's not a back door or magic unlocking
>
>


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